Google Fit: Activity Tracking

Google LLC

About this app

Get to a healthier and more active life with the new Google Fit!

It's hard to know how much or what kind of activity you need to stay healthy. That's why Google Fit collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to bring you Heart Points, an activity goal that can help improve your health.

Activities that get your heart pumping harder have tremendous health benefits for your heart and mind. You'll earn one Heart Point for each minute of moderate activity, like picking up the pace when walking your dog, and double points for more intense activities like running. It takes just 30 minutes of brisk walking five days a week to reach the AHA and WHO's recommended amount of physical activity shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, improve sleep and increase overall mental wellbeing.

Google Fit will also help you:

TRACK YOUR WORKOUTS FROM YOUR PHONE OR WATCH
Get instant insights when you exercise and see real-time stats for your runs, walks and bike rides. Fit will use your Android phone's sensors or Wear OS by Google smartwatch's heart rate sensors to record your speed, pace, route and more.

MONITOR YOUR GOALS
See your daily progress on your Heart Points and steps goal. Meeting your goals all the time? Easily adjust your goals to keep challenging yourself to achieve a healthy heart and mind.

MAKE ALL YOUR MOVEMENT COUNT
If you walk, run or bike throughout the day, your Android phone or Wear OS by Google smartwatch will automatically detect and add your activities to your Google Fit journal to ensure that you get credit for every move. Want extra credit? Turn up the tempo on your walks by starting a paced walking workout and stepping to the beat. Enjoy a different type of workout? Select it from a list of activities like pilates, rowing or spinning, and Google Fit will track all the Heart Points that you earn.

CONNECT WITH YOUR FAVOURITE APPS AND DEVICES
Fit can show you info from many of your favourite apps and devices to give you a holistic view of your health, so you'll never lose track of your progress. These include Lifesum, Wear OS by Google, Nike+, Runkeeper, Strava, MyFitnessPal, Basis, Sleep as Android, Withings, Xiaomi Mi bands and more.

CHECK IN AT ANY TIME, FROM ANYWHERE
See a snapshot of your activity history across Fit and your integrated apps in the redesigned journal. Or, get the full picture in browse, where you can find all of your health and wellness data.

KEEP A FINGER ON THE PULSE OF YOUR HEALTH
Breathing is one of the simplest ways to reduce tension and relieve stress. With Fit, checking in with your breath is easy – all you need is your phone camera. As well as your respiratory rate, you can measure your heart rate to get a better understanding of your body’s wellbeing.

VIEW YOUR DAY'S STATS AT A GLANCE
Add a widget to the home screen of your Android phone or set up a tile and complication on your Wear OS by Google smartwatch.

Learn more about Google Fit and see a list of supported apps at: www.google.com/fit

Ratings and reviews

I love this app! It's simple, tracks any number of different types of activity, and includes "Heart Points," which no other fitness app I've seen does. The interface is a pleasure to use, and looks really nice in dark mode as well. Two problems: Google wants to end the app at the end of 2024, which is very unfortunate because there's no good substitute, and the replacement is not an actual tracker, either. Problem two seems unique to me in that some days the tracking does not start. Restart ph.

I understand that we burn calories when we're sleeping, but this app auto adds like 900-1000 burned calories to my daily stats, when my watch is off and charging over night. It doesn't even let me turn off this feature or delete the data. I tried not charging the watch overnight and placing it in different areas, still nothing. I tried a few other things too like replacing the watch and resetting my phone. for a "smart watch" this is a pretty dumb feature.

Less accurate than ever. Had no problems until recent months. Tracking is way off and not at all accurate. Ex - Nowadays , 3,000 steps is considered as barely a mile. Same accuracy issues with heart points. Accuracy is a huge issue overall. Even for typical, brisk walks that are not runs , or at least require more effort. miss accurate data of my daily walks. Accuracy needs an update. Disappointed with that.

What's new

• Measure your heart rate and respiratory rate using just your phone camera (selected devices)
• Turn up the tempo of your walks with paced walking in Workouts
• Find all of your health and wellness data in the Browse tab
• Minor bug fixes and UI improvement